Cookie Notice

We are the publishing group Reach plc. We, via our various
subsidiary companies and brands, publish many national websites,
regional websites and mobile applications, that millions of people
enjoy every month. You can see the list of websites and brands we
publish here.

In this Notice we will refer to the mobile applications published by
Reach plc and our subsidiary companies as Apps and use the
term Sites to refer to our websites.

Our users and readers are central to our business and always have
been dating back, to the early 20th Century. Clearly, the world has
changed a lot over the past 100 years but our vision of informing and
entertaining people has not and we recognise users place a huge amount
of trust in us, in our content and the way we do business. A large part
of the change has been technology driven, much of which has been hugely
challenging for publishing businesses.

We are committed to managing that change in a way that still allows
you free access to the content that matters to you, across our digital
platforms. However, we also want you to feel in control of the
information you generate when you use our Sites and Apps.
The information generated from your browsing, helps us to understand
how people use our websites, how we can improve them and also make sure
advertisers get a good return on their investment. Their advertising
funds our activities and the content you read for free.

Like most websites and mobile applications, we use automatic data
collection technology when you visit one of our Sites or use
one of our Apps.
This notice explains how we use so called “cookies” and other related
technologies and how you can manage the behaviour of these cookies.

There is a detailed description of how we use the data we collect in
our Privacy Notice please click here.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent from a website to your web
browser. They are stored in your web browser’s cache and allow a
website or a third party to recognise your browser or mobile device.
Mobile devices and browsers can be shared by a number of people, so
cookies are not always wholly related to individuals.

We use three major types of cookies:

Analytics Cookies hold information as you view
different pages of the website and help us to build up a profile of how
our readers use the website. They help us to make the website work as
efficiently as possible and provide better content and services in the
future. We may also use analytics cookies to measure the effectiveness
of advertising on the Sites and the Apps and
elsewhere on the internet.

Example: By seeing that more
browsers and devices from London prefer football content on a Friday
evening than Sunday morning, we may change when and how much content we
produce for London football teams on a weekday as opposed to a weekend.

Personalisation and Service Cookies remember your
computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They remember your
registration and login details and your settings and preferences. They
are used to ensure you don’t have to login every time you use your
browser to comment on articles and to ensure interactive services work
effectively. They are also used to recommend content we think you'll be
interested in, based on what you've looked at before.

Example: We run a poll on a
particularly contentious local issue so we will use cookies to prevent
a device or browser voting hundreds of times to influence the poll
results.

Advertising Cookies are placed by us and our
advertising partners to deliver more relevant advertising. Our Sites,
Apps
and services are predominately free to consume, and in exchange we sell
our advertising space to allow us to create high quality content and
bring you the services you value. Cookies are a vital part of that
value exchange.

These cookies may gather information about your browsing activity on
our sites and for third parties, across different Sites
and across different visits. They allow us and advertisers to show more
relevant ads and allow advertisers to manage how many times a device
sees an advert. They might also allow the advertiser to tailor
advertising to you when you visit our Sites. Advertising
Cookies are usually stored until you delete them or they expire based
on the time period set in each cookie, which is normally around 30 days.

The third party advertisers are required to follow the applicable
laws. However, Reach plc does not have control over the third party
organisations that place cookies, who each have their own cookie and
privacy policies. We aim to be transparent on who we work with. You can
find a list of our partners and option to control advertising cookies
in our cookie management tool here.

Example: If a browser or device is
recognised to enjoy lots of content about celebrities, we and/or our
partners may show that browser or device adverts that relate to
relevant lifestyle, tech and consumer goods.

If you opt out of Advertising cookies, you are not opting out of
seeing advertising! You will still see plenty of adverts. They just may
not be as relevant to you and your interests. See ‘Managing your cookie
preferences’ below for more information about “opting out”.

Other technologies

In addition to cookies, there are similar technologies that may be
used by the Sites and the Apps. These
include:

Web beacons: These are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier that are used to understand browsing activity. Web beacons
are invisible when you open a web page.

Social widgets: These are buttons or icons provided
by third-party social media providers that allow you to interact with
those social media services when you view a web page or a mobile app
screen. These social widgets may collect browsing data, which may be
received by the third party that provided the widget, and are
controlled by the third parties.

UTM codes: These are strings that can appear in a
web
address when a user moves from one web page or website to another. The
string can represent information about browsing, such as which
advertisement or publisher sent the user to the receiving website.

Managing your cookie preferences

Most web browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. You should
look at your web browsers Settings or Help menu to find out how this is
done. However, please be aware that switching off cookies may affect
the way the Site operates and adversely affect the quality of your
experience on the website.

You can restrict the use of Advertising Cookies on our Sites
using our cookie management tool here.
Alternatively,
you can decline to receive interest based advertising at http://youronlinechoices.eu. You
can find a description of some of the First Party, Advertising and
Third Party Cookies used by Reach plc Sites in our Cookie Technologies List

You can also click on the AdChoices logo that you will see in the
corner of advertisements that carry behavioural targeting cookies (see Advertising
Cookies above) and click on the link to control the settings
Google uses to show you adverts https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

When using a mobile device, you can opt-out of receiving interest
based advertising by selecting ‘Limit Ad Tracking’ in the Settings of
your Apple iPhone or iPad, or the “Opt out of Ads Personalisation” in
the Google Settings on your Android device. You may also be able to
reset the unique identifier that Google uses for online behaviour based
advertising (referred to as an “Advertising ID”) in the Settings on
your Apple or Android device.

Ad Blocker Detection

We or our advertisers may use code in the website to detect if you
are using an ad blocker. If we detect that you are using an ad blocker,
we may display a warning message describing how this may affect your
experience using the Sites and ask that you disable it

Social Media Technologies

When you use social media platforms with the Sites and the Apps,
each platform has its own technologies and policies to be aware of. For
information on limiting the use of widgets and sharing functions with
social networks, see below: